I have to agree. He already knew the Org. was using him, that everyone betrayed him and were keeping secrets about who and what he was, even Axel. That should have been reason enough, which he still would have left the Org. on with or without Xion, I only think she helped in the act of making him leave.
Agreed.
Give or take the picture in KH2 where it has Roxas and Axel, the other two looked like hooded Riku and Xion, so it's possible. But still, I agree there should have been more hints or something.
Except that image looked way too feminine, with too mmany curves, as well as tall (woman-like, some say it's man-like), to resemble Xion, who no doubt would be shorter if meant to look like Kairi, a girl. Then you have Naminé herself drawing Xion in
Days, and it looks
nothing like the figure from the mansion.
I don't think he did have it in his mind at the end of KH1 to be honest, since we would have at least heard something hinting towards it from CoM and KH2. But then again Nomura said he did leave a lot out of KH2 which he wanted in, and even FM+ wasn't really enough to make up for that. So it is entirely possible he was bsing.
Yeah, he keeps contradicting a bunch of stuff said in KH1 and other titles so much it seems like it. He shouldn't even try to change it and just roll with what he had, because then he could have thought of something else more creative and such.
It's hard to really know anymore, lol. Every time he states anything, I look at it critically to see if it makes sense.
But either way, if KH2 had been a Roxas game I would have wanted Xion and pieces of Days story in it, be it existing or not, so that way we wouldn't need Days and Roxas would have had more motivation for revenge, and the memory of his best friends.
In the end, though, Roxas's life in the Organization wasn't that much of a big deal. The only thing that was ever a mystery was the dual wielding, and we know how
that turned out once the BBS Ultimania came through. Which most guessed it's what it was. If
KH2 was Roxas's game,
Days itself wouldn't have been needed, because the simple answers (like why he left, dual wielding again, or what did he do) that would have explained what happened in the missing time would have been there, either by flashbacks, or by how he slowly got his memories back, etc. We spent 200 or 300 days in
358/2 Days doing nothing. Xion was a plot device to make it somewhat interesting (despite that there could have been other ideas, but I regress). So you can really say that if we had Roxas in a full blown PS2 disc, then they wouldn't have to put in a plot device in the first place. Pack that with the lack of Xion's existence in that time, then, yeah. Roxas couldn't defeat Xemnas even if he wanted to, which he would find out on his journey once everything became clear. That could even play another coerced part on why he has to return to Sora. Xemnas wants to take over the universe: there's enough motivation in that. I doubt the boy would be
that selfish to let everything go to waste because he wants his life.
And the memory of Axel, his BFF, or the members he interacted with would be fine enough, I think. RAX felt forced to me in the end: it was "insert girl here" because...to insert. They also had Naminé.
It's a juggle. There could be many things. You might like RAX or one character
now that
Days is out, but who knows if there would have even
been a RAX. Or what parts could have been implemented or not. Xion herself wouldn't be forgotten, or be a memory clone to be easily forgotten by everyone and their mother without having Naminé have some random new power to affect those not connected to Sora if
KH2 was with Roxas. And the stuff was thought of by then. Lots of elements could change.
